| Show LEGION POST PURIFIES LITTLE OI BOOM TOWN IN TEXAS I 1 A I 1 me main street of 1 desdemona tex 7 legion in headquarter 1 in to lower part pan of hit b building sg att I 1 the he r right ight how di a post of the american Amerle aut le thin purified blittle a little oil off boom town tonn in n texas when respect for law and order had become a mockery ts is told in t american legion weekly doldson Du dezdemona Def ldson demona te tex wad hardly more mom the than a at stop for wily wayfare fors rs on the told roid a slum brons dusty community until dual oil came ca and ad the t town afook tooh on an new life and lured hosts of brawny ad adren tur ers ere th the trea I 1 nire hunters came a to prospect and III pioneer 0 A loo bill ant A as 1 Is inert all theall bably tably old the aar case there here followed after them b a horde ot of shift veed gentry try an and it red lipped women tile the word was passed out at that the lid no was off ff in dit desdemona then the ring ran up against the american lesion legion individually for a long time the members of alce post tried quietly to combat the spread ot of vice in Deade desdemona moun the ring old aid sit ed by the ton town A ren constable stable a deputy sheriff and the justice of the peace de caled that it mould crush crash this thi ration tio of rat veterans ermis who stood for ideals th that A I 1 were not compatible with places of unla unsavory repute it began by threatening the legionnaires with violence lo 10 en c and ad when it found them imell ahng 1 g to retaliate tt it grew more A arro gant the post quietly called a captain 11 of texas tell rangers age it from austin hie capt captain in found Desde desdemona mom in armad tumult armed members of the ri vice ring vere parading through the streets in confident bravado the pull post mar eluded its ite forces and ordered the three offending ailing peace odears officers of the to town to leave twenty four hou hours the latter returned a contemptuous re foial desdemona seethed rema from oil fields arld old and camps hundreds of men ins poured pound lot into tell town 1 to be present wine when the ultimatum should exaure eighteen legionnaires were nere sworn in as deputy rangers r geril and ad mingled with the crowd while tile the offending officers swaggered donn the main silent just As aa the time limit expired one are unarmed armed member of the legion post stewed up to the officers and ordered them to surrender A dozen resolve leape ped d from a dozen doer hips hip a and m a all I 1 tin bra bravado d w went ent out a of the rin ring g T the e L legion gon dep atlea A t ho disarmed the leaders and ad match march ed it them the off to an office where thel wrote out their resignations as tont officials TI the next in morning mg the roads from P desdemona semon were dotted with automo biles lit c hearing bearous the exodus of the sport ing 19 frit alev to anwer ner and ad greener pastures desdemona DAu lemor w as a through with them |
